Shouldn't the way we share research be as advanced as the Internet?

Carolyn Kenny

"First, there has been a radical shift in communication with the Internet and open access. It allows for much quicker communication and more communication internationally. Now there are networks in music therapy and ways of communicating across cultures and internationally that couldn’t exist previously."

Carolyn Kenny
Antioch University Ph.D. in Leadership and Change

Get More from Your Academic Research

In the age of the Internet, the ways you share and use academic research results are changing — rapidly, fundamentally, irreversibly. There’s great potential in change. After all, faster and wider sharing of journal articles, research data, simulations, syntheses, analyses, and other findings fuels the advance of knowledge. It’s a two-way street — sharing research benefits you and others. But will the promise of digital scholarship be fully realized? How will yesterday’s norms adapt to tomorrow’s possibilities?

This website will help you understand the changing landscape and how it affects you and your research. It also offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher.

A scholarly revolution is underway. It enables you to get a greater return from your research. All you have to do is share it.

How the Internet is transforming scholarship

Many of yesterday’s limitations on research and learning
are being swept away by the Internet. Today the ways
researchers study complex questions and share their
data and findings are changing fundamentally.
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Keep up with change

It’s easy to stay current on changes in scholarly communications with Open Access News, an up-to-the-minute blog that closely follows the latest developments. And there are many additional resources.
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Change is in the air

NEW! Create Change BookmarksThe first Create Change bookmarks, launched in June 2008, highlight comments from four researchers. Comments are drawn from full-length interviews published on the Create Change Web site...

Free Online College Courses Are ProliferatingMar. 28, 2008 (Wall Street Journal) – In the past few years, educational material, from handwritten lecture notes to whole courses, has been made available online, free for anyone who wants it.

Information LiberationMar. 7, 2008 (Wall Street Journal) – If your child has a life-threatening disease and you're desperate to read the latest research, you'll be dismayed to learn that you can't – at least not without hugely expensive subscriptions to a bevy of specialized journals or access to a major research library...

Cancer Data? Sorry, Can’t Have ItJan. 22, 2008 (New York Times) – Not long ago, I asked a respected cancer researcher if he could send me raw data from a trial he had recently published. He refused. Sharing data would make the study team members “uncomfortable,” he said, as I might use this to “cast doubt” on their results.

Measure Would Require Free Access To Results of NIH-Funded ResearchDec. 21, 2007 (Washington Post) – It is barely a drop of ink in the gargantuan omnibus spending bill that Congress just passed. But a provision that would give the public free access to the results of federally funded biomedical research represents a sweet victory for a coalition of researchers and activists...